Former Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares personally helped kill off the legendary Hemi V8, former co-workers claim. “Everyone wanted to keep [the Hemi],” a Stellantis source told CNBC this week following Tavares’s departure. The Hemi V8 is still available as a crate engine, and in select body-on-frame models, but not in the new Charger.

Carlos Tavares, the former CEO of Stellantis, led the European automotive conglomerate that absorbed Fiat Chrysler Automobiles since its inception in 2021, but his recent departure has opened the story vault of internal clashes and micromanagement, according to a new report from CNBC.

The now former CEO of Ram and Jeep parent Stellantis has been accused of ignoring his American executives and mistakenly killing the Hemi V8.

Unnamed sources at Stellantis are reportedly claiming that former CEO Carlos Tavares was the driving factor behind the decision to remove the Hemi V-8 from passenger cars.

Carlos Tavares, the former CEO of Stellantis, led the European automotive conglomerate that absorbed Fiat Chrysler Automobiles since its inception in 2021, but his recent departure has opened the story vault of internal clashes and micromanagement,

Stellantis insiders are saying that Tavares was the key driver of the Hemi V-8's death in its passenger cars. C arlos Tavares is gone as Stellantis' CEO, and in the aftermath of h